This course will introduce management to lab automation: what it is, management's role in laboratory automation and technology management, how to ensure successful projects, defining automation needs and product requirements. The benefits of the course include:
· improving the effectiveness of automation systems, and their ability to be successfully implemented & supported
· reducing costs, and improving data quality
· meeting the demands of regulatory agencies
· coordinating the work of IT groups, outside contractors & equipment vendors
· protect the value of the labs intellectual property
· make the most effective use of people's talents
Automation is part of lab work, learn to make the most of it. The course will also include a process for evaluating and purchasing laboratory informatics products.

Target Audience

This course is intended for Laboratory Management, and is also suitable for Information Technology management working in a scientific environment. It is intended for those interested in the successful application of automation and computing technologies to laboratory work (LIMS, lab notebooks, robotic, instrument data systems, etc.).

Joe Liscouski, Executive Director of the Institute for Laboratory Automation, is an experienced laboratory automation professional with over thirty years experience in the field including the design and development of automation systems, LIMS, robotics and data interchange standards. He has held symposia on validation, and presented technical material and short courses on laboratory automation and computing in the US, Europe, and Japan, and wrote an editorial defining the need for Laboratory Automation Engineering as a means of advancing the state-of-the-art. Publications include books and book chapters on computing and automation and over thirty technical papers. His most recent work has centered on the development of a new approach to technology planning and management for automation and computing.